A blog sharing information about materials presented to children on climate, highlighting those intended to frighten or mislead, and those which seek to inform and inspire rather than to recruit, even the very young, for an ill-founded political campaign around the threat of CAGW. A campaign which is irresponsible, destructive, divisive, and degrading.

'First, the non-climatic effects of carbon dioxide are dominant over the climatic effects and are overwhelmingly beneficial. Second, the climatic effects observed in the real world are much less damaging than the effects predicted by the climate models, and have also been frequently beneficial.'

Wednesday, 8 May 2013

Climate Teachers: don't add to the rotten legacy of the environmental movement

Environmentalism has a rotten legacy. The climate scaremongering is part of it.

(1) Have you checked for yourself the materials you use to teach about climate?

Teaching children that they face climate catastrophe, or even serious and imminent threats, due to rising levels of carbon dioxide is such a momentous decision that surely any conscientious teacher will at some stage do some checking of his or her own as to the credibility of such assertions. The journalist Melanie Phillips did just that, and she was not impressed with what she found.

This article appeared today in Greenie Watch attributed to Melanie Phillips but without a source-link. It looks like it could be her work to me, and so I am tentatively reproducing it as such here:

I have not yet found the article at source, but the above image as published has this i.dailymail link:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/07/article-2320940-19AB0B18000005DC-854_634x407.jpgNote added later same day: I have tracked the above article down. It appears without any explanation in this article, which though very moving and important, is not about climate. I presume it is included because it is in the book just published by Phillips. A recent article by her on climate is here.

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This displays a forecast made by Scafetta using a simple model combining various cycles which have been observed in temperatures, together with some 'adjustment for global warming'. His forecast has the light blue background. An IPCC 2007 'projection' is shown with a green background. The bold red-then-blue line is the HadCRUT calculation of a global mean temperature, with blue line connecting the most recent results. (Source: Tallbloke's blog). A 2016 paper by Scafetta: http://www.iieta.org/sites/default/files/Journals/HTECH/IJHT.34.S2_35.pdf